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I recently did a Q&A for the Globe and Mail about how artificial intelligence is changing the nature of cybersecurity, both for better and for worse. Like blockchains, AI has captured the zeitgeist and suddenly people who like to think about hammers are seeing nails almost everywhere.

The CSE just released a report detailing cyber threats to Canada’s democratic process. In light of this week’s most compelling publicly-made case to date that election hacking at the nation-state level is a thing, election agencies from the federal level all the way down to private, non-governmental elections...

Last night Guelph confronted the question of whether to (re)-adopt internet voting for their 2018 election. It was a contentious issue for the Royal City, with the mayor even going as far as to suggest concerns about online voting security were ultimately conspiracy theories that only served to suppress...

Western Australia is heading to the polls on March 11th. The geographically massive Australian state (it encompasses an area larger than Greenland) has opted to introduce online voting in its upcoming election for eligible voters with disabilities.

Software implementations of discrete logarithm based cryptosystems over finite fields typically make the assumption that any domain parameters they encounter define cyclic groups for which the discrete logarithm problem is assumed to be hard.

An oped co-authored by myself and Dr. Nicole Goodman of the Center for e-Democracy was published in the Ottawa Citizen today in which we tackle the issue of research funding in Canada for election technology.

Helios is an open-audit internet voting system providing cryptographic protections to voter privacy, and election integrity. As part of these protections, Helios produces a cryptographic audit trail that can be used to verify ballots were correctly counted. Cryptographic end-to-end (E2E) election verification schemes of this kind are a promising...

Recently I went up to Toronto to deliver a statement to the Toronto Executive Committee regarding a recommendation made by the City Clerk to not adopt internet voting for their 2018 municipal election. I think it had an impact; the committee and subsequently city council voted to accept the recommendations.

The Canadian parliamentary Special Committee on Electoral Reform (ERRE) recently held a public consultation regarding potential changes in the way people vote in future federal elections. This included a potential move toward proportional representation, but the committee’s mandate also included studying online voting. I submitted a brief outlining...